The Math of Reincarnation

Another factor in the math of reincarnation (How can reincarnation be truewhen we suddenly have so many more people?) is that in times of lowpopulation, souls space out their lifetimes more due to there being fewerbodies available. Since time is fluid on the astral plane and in generalseems much faster than it does on the physical plane, this is not a bigdeal. The decision to incarnate has a lot to do with things beinginteresting on the physical plane. In times of higher population, life ismore compressed and there's more going on, so it "pays" to incarnate morefrequently. When the world is changing slowly, souls might decide to take athousand or even ten thousand years "off" if there are no pressing karmas orprojects. There are other things for sentient souls to do besideincarnating--between lifetimes, souls often travel far and wide, forinstance.